Apocolocyntosis by Lucius Annaeus Seneca(
Book
)3
editions published
between
1729
and
1955
in
3
languages
and held by
7 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist,
who also acted as a tutor and adviser to emperor Nero. Attributed to Seneca is this political satire on the Roman emperor
Claudius, Apocolocyntosis or The Pumpkinification of Claudius . The title, meaning "Pumpkinification" or "Gourdification"
is a play upon "apotheosis", the process of recognizing a dead Roman emperor